Exclusive: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult on indicted associate's firm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday.
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Giuliani said Parnas’ company, Boca Raton-based Fraud Guarantee, whose website says it aims to help clients “reduce and mitigate fraud”, engaged Giuliani Partners, a management and security consulting firm, around August 2018. Giuliani said he was hired to consult on Fraud Guarantee’s technologies and provide legal advice on regulatory issues.
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According to an indictment unsealed by U.S. prosecutors, an unidentified Russian businessman arranged for two $500,000 wires to be sent from foreign bank accounts to a U.S. account controlled by Fruman in September and October 2018. The money was used, in part, by Fruman, Parnas and two other men charged in the indictment to gain influence with U.S. politicians and candidates, the indictment said.
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“I know beyond any doubt the source of the money is not any questionable source,” he told Reuters in an interview. “The money did not come from foreigners. I can rule that out 100%,” he said.
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Not so fast there Rudy, Lev and Igor seem to be just the middleman, passing along {Oligarch} donations from other deep-pocket {Russian} sources. They even had to invent another non-existent company (GEP), just to try and pretend their influence-checks to the GOP would not bounce {be detected} ...
Illinois Republican Party among groups that got donations from indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani
by Tina Sfondeles, Chicago Sun-Times — Oct 10, 2019
[...] The charges stem from a $325,000 donation to a group supporting Trump’s reelection. Records show both used wire transfers from a corporate entity to make the contribution to the America First Action committee in 2018.
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Federal campaign finance records show the Illinois Republican Party received $661.90 from Parnas on Oct. 24, 2016 — the same amount he gave to several other groups that day, including the Republican parties of Virginia, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia, among others. Parnas began contributing to political organizations in 2016.
Prosecutors charge that the two men falsely claimed the contributions came from GEP, which was described as a liquefied natural gas business. At that point, the company had no income or significant assets, according to the indictment.
Parnas and Fruman were arrested on a four-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and falsification of records. The men had key roles in Giuliani’s efforts to launch a Ukrainian corruption investigation against Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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Rudy, you better call Saul!
Because you’re going to need a ‘criminal attorney’ who’s way better at it, than you are — before you’re through.
Maybe you and Michael Cohen can share a cell. And wait for that Pardon from Donald Dumbass, that somehow will be perpetually ‘lost in the mail’.
Maybe he can tweet you a Pardon — from Moscow — after he finally decides to skip town.
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